Beach, Edward L. The United States Navy: 200 Years. New York: Holt, 1986. 564 pp.

A personal view of American naval history from the perspective of the revolutionary changes in naval warfare brought about by technological innovation.

Bell, Frederick J. Room to Swing a Cat: Being Some Tales of the Old Navy. New York: Longmans, 1938. 272 pp.

A chronicle of life at sea from the Revolution through the War of 1812, as related by a twentieth-century naval officer.

Clark, Thomas. Naval History of the United States From the Commencement of the Revolutionary War to the Present Time. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1814. 2 vols.

A revised edition of the first United States naval history. Originally published in 1813 as Sketches of the Naval History of the United States. The author, a contemporary of the events about which he writes, relies heavily on personal communication with some of the major participants, including John Adams and Commodore Thomas Truxtun.

U.S. Department of Defense. Report of the Secretary of Defense,and the Reports of the Secretary of the Army, Secretary of the Navy, Secretary of the Air Force. Washington: GPO, 1947/48-.

Prior to unification, Navy reports published separately as Annual Report of the Secretary of the Navy.

U.S. Naval Academy History Symposium. Proceedings Naval History Symposium: The Navy in an Age of Change and Crisis: Some Challenges and Responses of the Twentieth Century. Edited by Arnold R. Shapack. Annapolis: U.S. Naval Academy, 1973. 92 pp.

-----. Changing Interpretations and New Sources in Naval History: Papers >From the Third United States Naval Academy History Symposium. Edited by Robert W. Love, Jr. and others. New York: Garland Pub., 1980. 471 pp.